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9.1.3 Reader Objects</a>
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Reader objects (<tt class="class">DictReader</tt> instances and objects returned by
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Return the next row of the reader's iterable object as a list, parsed
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Reader objects have the following public attributes:

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A read-only description of the dialect in use by the parser.
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 The number of lines read from the source iterator. This is not the same
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